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Two bomb blasts kill policeman in Peshawar, northwest Pakistan
May 18, 2016 12:04At least one policeman has been killed and 10 others injured in two bomb blasts targeting a police patrol in the troubled city of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan.
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Taliban captives freed by Afghan special forces
May 06, 2016 14:26More than 60 prisoners held by the Taliban militants have been freed by Afghan forces in the southern province of Helmand.
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Afghan leader urges Pakistan to battle Taliban
Apr 25, 2016 11:06Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has called on Pakistan to fight the Taliban militants rather than attempt to bring them into peace talks.
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Senior Taliban commander killed in east Afghanistan
Apr 24, 2016 11:15A senior commander of the Taliban militant group has been killed during an operation conducted by security forces in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Parwan.
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Pakistani Taliban kill provincial minister
Apr 23, 2016 06:13Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan have killed a provincial minister in the country’s restive northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
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Violence claimed 600 Afghan civilian lives in 1st quarter of year: UN
Apr 17, 2016 07:28Latest figures released by the United Nations show that acts of terrorism and violence left 600 people dead in Afghanistan during the first quarter of the current year as the armed forces continue to battle Taliban militants.
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Taliban terrorists pushed back near Afghanistan's Kunduz
Apr 16, 2016 12:24Afghan security forces have driven back Taliban terrorists in areas near the northern city of Kunduz.
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Six Afghan policemen killed in Taliban ambush in Balkh
Apr 04, 2016 12:23At least six Afghan police officers have lost their lives after their convoy was ambushed by Taliban militants in the country’s northern province of Balkh, an Afghan official says.